Bee-flies look adorable. Seeing the dark-edged bee-fly hover in mid-air, some people describe it as a tiny, fluffy, flying narwhale. It has a hairy little body and face, and a very long, straw-like ...

Parasitic Fly Threatens Honey Bee Populations Honey bee colonies around the United States are in decline, threatened by several different diseases and parasites. John Hafernik, a professor of ...

Rent Mason Bees and UC Davis have launched the Houdini Fly Hunt to stop the spread of an invasive parasite threatening native mason bee populations in the Pacific Northwest.

A robotic insect with four wings is the first to be able to control itself in all three axes of movement like a bee. But landing on the ceiling like a fly is still beyond its reach.

Biting midges will also bite pets and are known by names such as “no-see-ums” or “punkies.” Black flies lay eggs in flowing ...

The crane fly legs and updated controller also protect the RoboBee’s fragile piezoelectric actuators—the tiny robot’s equivalent of an insect’s muscles.

Bee fly larva attaches to a host with its straw-like tongue, called a proboscis, and slowly consumes it. (Submitted by Rendy Shuya) But it's not only bumble bees getting slowly eaten alive.

We say hard workers are “busy as a bee,” but in a recent study, honey bees seemed more like employees in an office building. Entomologists and engineers in the U.S. glued tiny QR codes to the ...

MASON BEES ARE SMALL. They don’t look like what we think a bee should look like and in fact more closely resemble a fly, although some are an attractive metallic greenish-blue.